120 TTTRDID-.E. 



with reddish brown and lilac, and measure from 1*05 to 1 - 10 in 

 length, and from *75 to '81 in breadth. 



1. Siberia (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



5. Yenesei River, Lat. i;r>i N., 26th Seebohm Coll. 



June (H. Seebohm). 



6. Amur-land, 2nd June. Crowley Bequest. 



Tardus torquatus (Linn.). 



Turdus torquatus, HewiUon, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 93, pi. xxv. liirs. iii 

 & iv (1856); Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 113, part. (1872); Sharpe, 

 Iland-l. iv. p. 140 (1903). 



Merula torquata, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 240, part. (1881) ; id. 

 Brit. Birds, i. p. 24:3, pi. 8 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 181, 

 pi. 50. fig. 10 (1896) ; Sharpe in Seebohm' s Mon. Turdida, ii. p. 27 

 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat Eiersamml. p. 37 (1899). 



The series of eggs of the Ring-Ouzel in the Collection, renders it 

 at once evident that, in spite of their general similarity to those 

 of the Blackbird and Fieldfare, and, in some cases, tho Missel- 

 Thrush, a clearer type, with bolder and richer markings, prevails 

 among them. 



In form they vary as much as the eggs of other Thrushes, and 

 they have the same two shades of ground-colour, a greenish-blue 

 and a stone-colour ; the markings are fairly evenly distributed, not 

 often coalescing into a cap at one end, but they are of all tints of 

 reddish brown, from bright chestnut to a dingy purple. 



In size they range from 1*05 to 1*30 in length, and from "79 to 

 •90 in breadth. 



